Aquaman
#54
(November-December 1970)
DC,
1962 Series
- Price
- 0.15 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1970-09-03
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- National Periodical Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
DC [character]
- Editing
- Dick Giordano
Issue Notes
Printed in the U.S.A. On-sale date from copyright registration.
Am I My Own Executioner?
Aquaman / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Nick Cardy
- Inks
- Nick Cardy
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- G 1052
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Aquaman; Thanatos
- Reprints
in 
Crime Wave!
Aquaman / comic story / 22.33 pages
- Script
- Steve Skeates (credited); William Cullen Bryant [as W. C. Bryant] (poem quote)
- Pencils
- Jim Aparo (credited)
- Inks
- Jim Aparo (credited)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Jim Aparo
- Job Number
- G-770
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Aquaman; Mera; Thanatos (villain); Edwin Maxwell; John (police detective); Paul (police officer); unnamed thugs; unnamed crime syndicate boss; unnamed crime syndicate members
- Synopsis
- Aquaman faces a creature known as Thanatos, who can take on all of Aquaman's powers and abilities while also draining energy from Aquaman.
- Reprints
-
in Top Comics Wassermann (BSV - Williams, 1970 series) #118 -
in Aventures Fiction (Arédit-Artima, 1966 series) #53 (2ème trimestre 1976) [N&B et recadré/B&W and reframed] - in Aquaman (Egmont Ehapa, 1976 series) #8 (1983)
-
in Aquaman: Deadly Waters The Deluxe Edition (DC, 2020 series) ([October] 2020)
-
Indexer Notes
Page 23 is only 0.33 pages long. Bottom two-thirds (0.67) of the page is devoted to a promo for Jack Kirby's start on Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen (DC, 1954 series) #133.
The unnamed crime syndicate boss is the same one who previously kidnapped Mera, as shown in Aquaman #44.
The Story Behind the Stories
text article / 1 page
- Job Number
- G-903
- Reprints
- in Aquaman: Deadly Waters The Deluxe Edition (DC, 2020 series) ([October] 2020)
-
Indexer Notes
Skeates discusses his background and how it played into the development of his Aquaman stories. The article is accompanied by a small illustration of Aquaman as part of the header.
The A-B-Seas of Skin Diving!
comic story / 2 pages
- Job Number
- G-1035
- Genre
- non-fiction; sports
- Reprints
- from Showcase (DC, 1956 series) #27 (July-August 1960)
-
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
Am I My Own Executioner?
Aquaman -
1.
Crime Wave!
Aquaman -
2.
The Story Behind the Stories
-
3.
[no title indexed]
Direct Currents -
4.
The A-B-Seas of Skin Diving!
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5.
Snoopy Strikes Again!
Snoopy; Mattel Monogram
This issue was modified by, among others
- Steve Belknap
- Dwayne Best
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Nick Caputo
- Peter Croome
- CTGarry
- Matthew Head
- Steve Jenner
- John Monagle
- Alex N
- Mike Nielsen
- Per Sandell
- Daniel Thingvold
- Jim Van Dore
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